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Eirini Zormpa
Doctoral researcher in social sciences with strong quantitative analysis skills and demonstrable experience running and managing research projects. Driven and reliable with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience
PhD Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, NL
2016–2020
In my PhD, I research what people remember from conversations and how that changes as a result of speaking as opposed to listening. My research uses in-person and online behavioural experiments as well as eye-tracking methods.
Graduate Research Assistant
Reading University
Reading, UK
2016
I worked on two projects, one on prospective memory and one on bilingualism. My responsibilities included recruiting and testing participants using EEG and transcribing narratives of Greek-English bilingual children.
Teacher of English
Mingiani-Prevyzi Foreign Language School
Serres, GR
2013-2014
I taught English to primary school children, aged 8 to 12. My responsibilities included developing the curriculum, delivering the classes, creating and grading tests, and communicating with the parents.
Education
University of Reading
MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)
Reading, UK
2014–2015
- Completed two independent and one collaborative research project on bilingualism.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
BA in English Language and Literature (1st Class grade)
Thessaloniki, GR
2009–2013
- Undertook Erasmus exchange at Essen-Duisburg University.
- Conducted research on the narratives of Greek-Albanian bilingual children.
Selected Posters and Presentations
Communicative intentions influence memory for conversations
Poster presented at the 26th AMLaP conference (online).
Potsdam, DE
Sep 2020
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
Answers are remembered better than the questions themselves
Poster presented at the spring EPS meeting (online).
Canterbury, UK
Apr 2020
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
Awards & Honours
- Donders Institute
- Donders Posters Theme 1 winner (2017)
- University of Reading
- Achieving Excellence Bursary Award (2014)
Supervision
- Wenwen Jin
- Intern at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Reviewer
- Memory & Cognition
- Memory
- Journal of Open Source Software
- Frontiers in Psychology
Blog Posts
- Why mycode.R_final.v2_usethisone is not helping your workflow. Software Sustainability Institute, Speed blog written during the Collaborations Workshop 2020.
Volunteering
- Pint of Science NL - Nijmegen team (2018-2020)
- Kletskoppen Child Language Festival (2018)
- Drongo Language Festival (2017)
- Erasmus Student Network (ESN) - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012-2014)
References
- Professor Antje S. Meyer
- Supervisor
- antje.meyer@mpi.nl
- Dr Laurel E. Brehm
- Supervisor
- laurel.brehm@mpi.nl
Naming pictures slowly facilitates memory for their names
Poster presented at the 21st ESCoP meeting.
Tenerife, ES
Sep 2019
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
Selected Event Organising Experience
Open Science Community Nijmegen
Co-founder and event organiser of community advocating for open science in Nijmegen. Content creator for the website and newsletter.
N/A
2018–2020
R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter
Co-founder and event organiser of local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community.
N/A
2018–2020
Open Access Ambassador Conference
Organiser for 2-day international conference in Berlin, bringing together stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.
N/A
Dec 2019
Selected Teaching Experience
Reproducible analyses in R
Workshop presented at MPI Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, NL
Jun 2020
Developed a workshop for psycholinguists showing how to use R projects, GitHub, and Binder for reproducible analytical environments.
Key Practices for the Language Scientist
IMPRS Language Sciences
Nijmegen, NL
2020
Co-instructor with Julia Egger on a 6-week course teaching how to conduct transparent, robust, and GDPR-compliant research.
Peer-reviewed Publications
Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming
Memory 27. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Laurel E. Brehm, Renske S. Hoedemaker, & Antje S. Meyer